Brilliant Ultimatum
Sorcery
Brilliant Ultimatum
Sorcery
Card Text
Exile the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. You may play lands and cast spells from one of those piles. If you cast a spell this way, you cast it without paying its mana cost.
Card Details
- Mana Value
- 7
- Colors
- Black, Blue, White
- Color Identity
- Black, Blue, White
- EDHREC Rank
- #11,804
Format Legalities
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Price History (30d)
All Printings (9)
| Set | # | Rarity | Lang | Artist | Price | Foil |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shards of Alara (ALA) | #159 | rare | en | Anthony Francisco | $1.50 | $4.27 |
| Shards of Alara (ALA) | #159 | rare | de | Anthony Francisco | β | β |
| Shards of Alara (ALA) | #159 | rare | es | Anthony Francisco | β | β |
| Shards of Alara (ALA) | #159 | rare | fr | Anthony Francisco | β | β |
| Shards of Alara (ALA) | #159 | rare | it | Anthony Francisco | β | β |
| Shards of Alara (ALA) | #159 | rare | ja | Anthony Francisco | β | β |
| Shards of Alara (ALA) | #159 | rare | pt | Anthony Francisco | β | β |
| Shards of Alara (ALA) | #159 | rare | ru | Anthony Francisco | β | β |
| Shards of Alara (ALA) | #159 | rare | zhs | Anthony Francisco | β | β |
Official Rulings (6)
You can play a land card from the chosen pile only if itβs your turn (which it probably is, since Brilliant Ultimatum is a sorcery) and you havenβt yet played a land this turn. That means that if there are two lands in the chosen pile, youβll be able to play a maximum of one of them.
One of the piles may have zero cards in it if the opponent wishes.
The cards are exiled face up.
The cards in the pile that wasnβt chosen remain exiled. Likewise, any cards in the chosen pile that you canβt play or you choose not to play remain exiled.
If you cast a card βwithout paying its mana cost,β you canβt pay any alternative costs. You can pay additional costs, such as conspire costs and kicker costs.
You play cards from the chosen pile as part of the resolution of Brilliant Ultimatum. You may play them in any order. Timing restrictions based on the cardβs type (such as creature or sorcery) are ignored. Other play restrictions are not (such as βCast [this card] only during combatβ). You play all of the cards you like, putting land onto the battlefield and spells on the stack, then Brilliant Ultimatum finishes resolving and is put into your graveyard. The spells you cast this way will then resolve as normal, one at a time, in the opposite order that they were put on the stack.
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